Day 50

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful 

      and kindle in them the fire of your love. 

Send forth your spirit and we shall be created. 

      And You shall renew the face of the earth.

The rains have been fierce in Chicago this spring. The very first drawing was lifted from the pavement the same night it was drawn (no reflection on the artist / theologian). As the rain continues to wash away our thoughts we continue take the conversations about heaven into our lives.

Thank you to everyone who participated, and participates, in this dialogue. Whether drawing, or watching, viewing or creating, you have each brought this table of hope to a wild and wanting world.

Looking forward to seeing you next year. - Karen

Day 49 - June 11

Authors: Sue & Karen

Inspired by the work of Minneapolis artist He Qi www.heqigallery.com

Location: 530 W Fullerton

Date: June 11, 2011

Parish:  Church of Our Saviour

Day 48 - June 10

Authors: Sue & Karen (The Mooney sisters)

Inspired by the work of Minneapolis artist He Qi www.heqigallery.com

Location: 530 W Fullerton

Date: June 10, 2011

Parish:
Church of Our Saviour

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Acts 2:1-4

Day 47 - June 9

Author: Karen Mooney
Location: Chicago
Date: June 9, 2011
Parish: Church of Our Saviour

Who will save this wild and wanting world. It is ours to do. 94 degrees on Wednesday to 47 on Thursday, reduce reuse recycle.

I light a candle for hope.

Day 46 - June 8 (2 Sites)

First Author: Brian Hastings - in 97 degree heat Brian worked to complete a  work highlighting God among us. The heavens opened and washed away his work before it could be recorded.


Sculptor: Pam Rumancik

Location: Chicago

Parish: the world

There is a story I know.  It’s about the earth and how it floats in space on the back of a turtle.  I’ve heard this story many times, and each time someone tells the story, it changes. 

Sometimes the change is simply in the voice of the storyteller. 

Sometimes the change is in the details.  Sometimes in the order of events. 

Other times it’s the dialogue or the response of the audience.  But in all the tellings of all the tellers, the world never leaves the turtle’s back.  And the turtle never swims away.

One time, it was in Prince Rupert, I think, a young girl in the audience asked about the turtle and the earth.  If the earth was on the back of a turtle, what was below the turtle?  Another turtle, the storyteller told her.  And below that turtle?  Another turtle.  And below that?  Another turtle.

The girl began to laugh, enjoying the game, I imagine.  So how many turtles are there? she wanted to know.  The storyteller shrugged.  No one knows for sure, he told her, but it’s turtles all the way down.


Thomas King begins his book, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative, with this delightful question and answer.

Day 45 - June 7

Artist:  JDM
Location:  Lakefront path, south of Hollywood Ave
Date: June 6, 2011
Parish:  Church of Our Saviour


Frank Sinatra sang "I'm in heaven ... when we're dancing cheek to cheek."  The song reminds me of that special, electric, euphoric spark that you get when you hold the one you love very closely. 

We're told that we will have an eternal relationship with God in heaven.  How wonderful to imagine having that euphoric feeling, and knowing that it will last forever!

Day 44 - June 6

Authors: Andria Skornik, Dan Puchalla

Location: Promontory Point, Hyde Park

Date: June 6, 2011

Church: St. Paul & the Redeemer


Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth.
Rev. 21:1

Day 43 - June 5

Author: Erica McKeehen

Location: Bucyrus, Ohio

Date: May 31, 2011

Parish: The world

This photo was taken last weekend in my parent's back yard, the day of my grandfather's funeral. I was feeling so many conflicted, difficult emotions, and then I found this lovely bundle of flowers growing up the fence. 

Heaven is the hope that flowers can bloom after all the rain, even after the floods. Heaven is found in the simple yet unique beauty in our own backyards, small gifts of color and life in often unexpected places. Heaven is reaching for the sunlight, upwards and onwards, even when you're cemented in dirt.

Day 42 - June 4

Authors: The guests and hosts of a party celebrating Monica Redfern's 8th grade graduation:  The Palmers, Eldredges, Kinasts, Redferns, Rileys, Hoggs, Civettas, Fitzmaurices, Myrens, Dooleys, Moores, Johnsons, Andersons, Cooks, Hostickas, Zacharias, Loves, and a few other families as well.

Location: Ringwood, IL

Date: June 4, 2011

Parish.... Church of Our Saviour

   the world of our community

Heaven is an enormous box of chalk and lots of friends drawing on a silo.

Day 41 - June 3

Authors: Jullians
Location: Greenleaf & Sheridan
Date: June 3, 2011
Parish: Episcopal Service Corps - Jullian Year


Heaven - where hugs last more than 3 seconds.

Day 40 - June 2

Author: Josh Frank
Location: Ashland and Greenleaf which is along the sidewalk outside of Eugene Field Elementary School
Date: June 2, 2011
Parish: The Porch (an emerging church conversation that just started in Rogers Park)

Inspiration: Isaiah 2:4

Other notes: when I considered the theme, I kept coming back to images of peace, reconciliation, and all things being put to right. I considered a beautiful hillside with a majestic tree overlooking fields of grains, but then I had two thoughts: it seemed a little too idyllic and passive; and I am not that strong of a chalk artist! Soon after, this passage from Isaiah sprung to mind. While I strongly believe Rogers Park gets a bad rap for being violent and crime-ridden (hard statistics don't bear this image out; our wonderfully diverse neighborhood is at worst very middle of the pack in the city), we have experienced a few violent and deadly crimes in the last few weeks.

Hopefully the message of this temporary piece of art will last in some random viewer's heart and mind long after the rains wash it away.

Day 38 - May 31

Authors: COS Youth
Location: Church of Our Saviour
- 530 W Fullerton
Date: May 31, 2011
Parish: Church of Our Saviour

When we've been there ten thousand years

bright shining as the sun. We've no less days
to sing God's praise then when we first begun.

Heaven is taking delight in simple games.

Love Family
Love Cake
Love Fun
Love Friends
Love Pets






In the end we will all be reunited











 To see the world in a grain of sand







People are most beautiful when they are happy and laughing (in my opinion)








Turn hatred to water and let it slip through our hands















And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that light the way are blinding




 Sky is womb and she's the moon

Day 39 - June 1

Authors: Karen M, Richard M., Alice W.

Location: All Saints Episcopal Hermitage & Wilson

Date: June 1, 2011

Parish:  All Saints Episcopal
     Church of Our Saviour
     Hemenway United Methodist Church

 







Our separateness 

is an illusion